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Event Grid vs Event Hubs

One is a doorbell. The other is a tape you can rewind.

What you'll learn

  • The doorbell-or-tape question that settles which one you need
  • Push with retries versus pull with offsets and retention
  • Why a real pipeline usually ends up using both
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Understand it one step at a time

The short runs these in order in about 32 seconds. Here they are written out — pick any step to jump the short straight to it.

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Both say event. Not the same

Same word in both service names, two completely different jobs underneath — and picking wrong shows up months later, not on day one.

Frequently asked questions

What's the core difference between Event Grid and Event Hubs?
Event Grid is push-based with retries and no replay — a doorbell, good for reacting to discrete things happening. Event Hubs is a pull-based log with offsets and retention — a tape, good for when more than one consumer needs to read the same stream, including ones that join later.
When would a pipeline need both?
When some consumers need instant reaction to an event happening (Event Grid) and others need to replay or reprocess a history of events later (Event Hubs) — most real pipelines end up using both rather than picking one.

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